In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion in its torpedo room, ...

On August 12, 2000, two explosions shook the Barents Sea, marking the beginning of a tragic disaster for the Russian submarine Kursk. The Oscar-class submarine, designed to carry cruise missiles, ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- For the third time in a week, bad weather has forced divers to stop work on efforts to lift the Russian submarine Kursk from ... barge carrying salvage equipment, including ...

The Kursk's commanders and most ... destabilise the lifting operation. Most of the submarine's hull was raised on October 8 in an $65 million salvage operation carried out by an international ...

It was the largest salvage operation of its type ever accomplished ... the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet claimed that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- Sailors huddled in the sunken submarine Kursk struggled against carbon monoxide from a fire, according to a second note found on one of the crewmen's bodies, a Russian government ...

These stretch from the salvage operation of the Kursk submarine (2001) to the installation of the 36,200 ton confinement arch over the Chernobyl reactor (2014). Mammoet's new crane builds on the ...

OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- The team of Norwegian divers who managed to enter the stricken Kursk submarine called off their operation on Tuesday -- at least for the time being. Officials at Stolt ...

KURSK, August 12 (Itar-Tass) — Events to commemorate 118 crew members of the sunken nuclear powered submarine Kursk will take place at the WWII memorial in Kursk on Sunday, August 12 ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...

It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster. An official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine ...